– Thomas L. Jennings Wikipedia article: Confirms patent details, dry scouring, and family background.
– Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) exhibit PDF: Provides incident and legal case overview.
**Sourcing notes:**
– The Historical Society of New York Courts (history.nycourts.gov) and NY Transit Museum (nytransitmuseum.org) pages specified in the prompt were not directly accessible through the session’s fetching capability; their content was accessed through secondary references and the Alan Singer primary-source compilation that draws on the same record.
– The $225 jury award is documented in the Alan Singer source (drawing on Douglass’ Paper and court records) and is consistent with the Historical Society of New York Courts specification noted in the prompt ($225 + $22.50 costs). The $250 figure in other sources appears to be a rounded approximation of the combined total.
– The 1861 vs. 1873 desegregation timeline conflict is unresolved in the accessible sources; both dates are noted with their distinct meanings (practice vs. statute) rather than one silently chosen.
– Proposed statue near Grand Central Terminal: Announced 2019; completion status not confirmed in sources accessed.